Group 2

Group members

• Christian Bettstetter
• Hermann de Meer
• Johannes Klinglmayr
• Martina Umlauft

Challenges

• Design of emergence:
  • How to design local rules achieving the desired global properties?
  • Communication pattern
  • Non-trivial but approaches exist.

• Design of communication

• Simple versus chaotic behavior: Can we describe the system state?
  • The state of some self-organizing systems can be easily modeled (firefly sync)
  • The state of other self-organizing systems cannot be modeled, they exhibit chaotic behavior, which makes it impossible to predict future states.

• Malicious nodes, faults, defects
• Rare events may lead to major global effects. Repeatability of results

• Testing:
  • • Testing a proposed self-organizing system with respect to a given goal can be difficult (many entities, large operational range)

Ideas

• "Immune system" as an umbrella around self-organizing system
• Optimize probability to end up in desired state

Side note

• Heylighen: "interaction pattern are not specified"